The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1958-11-20, Page 2P 2 The Timee•Adveeate, November 20, 1953
Editorials..
This newspoper believes the.
right to express an opinion in:
public eantributes to the pro.
grass of the nation. And that it
must be exercised freely to pre-
serve end Improve demacretic
government..
Your Show
Y ou'v-e paid the price of admission already
and the theatre isn't far away. Why not make a date
now with your wife Cllr vice versa, since it's Sadie
Hawkins time of year) to enjoy a few enlightening
hours.
What's playing?
It's a live show called "Your Business" t4 ort
don't have to settle for some of this canned stuff you
get on the video machine). It's better than cinerama
or 3-l? because the screen's as wide as your eyes will
travel and all the natural dimensions are there. The
actors are well-known to you and what they lack in
talent they make up in sincerity.
The plot wouldn't win an academy award but
it should be mighty interesting and it sometimes
contains exciting climaxes. Perhaps the most enthral-
ling thing about it is that it deals with you. the way
you live, the services you receive and the money
you spend. You can get in the act yourself since it
sometimes turns into an audience participation type
tlf show.
As we said at the beginning, you've already
paid the price of admission and it isn't cheap—it has
cost you anywhere from $50 to ,$1,500 to enjoy this
show. Can you afford to miss the nomination meet-
ing in your municipality after • contributing that
much?
Whistle Blows
The whistle has already blown to start the
'district hockey season.
Mitchell and Ilderton opened the schedule
Tuesday night in Lucan arena. Friday night there
will be action at Luca.n and at Clinton and on Satur-
day the Mohawks will make their home debut.
This year theses a tight five -team grouping
for intermediate play that. should provide excellent
entertainment for sports fans. The arch -rivals, Lucan
and Ilderton, will provide some excitement and Ex-
eter Mohawks appear to have a top contender.
Let's get enthusiastic about this home -town
entertainment, since its future is being challenged
by lack of support at the gate. An action -packed, ice
battle at local arena beats a video show at home any
time. Attend a game, and we're sure you'll agree.
Better Service
Our friends at Centralia, both on the air force
station and in the village district, are enjoying a new
home convenience this week—dial telephone service.
We congratulate them on their good fortune. We
envy 'em too.
The Bell Telephone Co.'s move there has been
necessary to provide better than party -line, service
•for.the residents of Huron Park and Centralia village,
' who have not received the type of service the Bell
-Lias provided for other communities of similar size.
The company is to be commended for its move to
improve this service.
When will Exeter get dial? Apparently, this
move is on the company's books for the early 1960's
but there's an important "if" .involved. It could be
that unless Bell's application for an increase in rates
is allowed by the federal government that this and
other. Bell construction projects will have to be de-
layed.
The increase has already been approved by
the Board of Transport commissioners but a large
number of municipalities are fighting the hike, the
company's first in some five years. The municipali-
ties' appeals would appear to be based on political
gain more than reasonable argument since there can
be few councils which have not had to raise their
tax rates during the past five years because of in-
creased costs. It would appear, on the surface at
least, wishful thinking to suggest that the Bell's costs
have not increased and that the telephone company,
like the councils, needs more revenue to continue
their services.
Don't Get 'Em
Sometimes when his girls start singing, "We
get letters,"
thisls newspaper per vlshes it were Perry
Como who apparently gets hundreds of pieces of
mail every week.
Now, unfortunately, we couldn't print hund-
reds of letters each week -even if we did get them
but we'd be happy to print a number from our
readers in every issue if they'd only send 'em.
We know mpst people have opinions—some-
times strong ones—about current topics, farm is-
sues, older times, local and national government
policies and many other subjects. We know other
people would like to read about them,
.Why not send us a note --try to keep it con-
else, please -...about your pet pleasure or peeve:
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So often am I aware of my
Own failings as a weekly editor,
that I can't help pondering on
the makeup of the ideal editor.
He, of course, is the editor of
the weekly newspaper that
pleases all it's subscribers.
I have yet to see the issue ap-
pear that pleased more than a
minute portion of my readers,
•If the teachers aren't after me,
the preachers are. IC the tem-
perance people aren't gunning
for me, the hotelkeepers are
roaring with pain over some
fancied slight. If the dog owners
aren't urging me to partisanship,
the garden lovers are down on
me for not demanding an open
season on canines.
* * *
The ideal weekly editor would
have to combine the forbearance
of St. :Francis with the raw
courage of Joan of Arc, the per-
e.picuity of Plato with the cun-
ning of Machiavelli, the elo-
quence of Demosthenes with the
foresight of Mother Shipton,
e * e :,
That's what makes it so diffi-
cult. YGu just don't find too many
people around with all those at-
tributes rolled up in one hide,
You get one fellow with a brain
like a polished blade, and he
hasn't the guts to do any slash-
ing with it. You find another edi-
tor with the furious courage of
a wounded wild buffalo, and just
about as much insight. Still an-
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News Of Your
LIBRARY
Sugar
AND
Spice
Dispensed By BILL SMILEY
By MRS. J. M. S.
The interior walls of your
library have just received a coat
of paint with pale peach on the
upper walls and a deeper shade
in peach on the lower. The books
have all been placed back on
the shelves and the whole creates
a fresh, attractive appearance.
* * * *
This week is Young Canada's
Book Week and owing to redec-
orating at your library plans
such as have been carried out
in previous years have had to be
curtailed. However quite a num-
ber of new juvenile books are
on display and will be pladed
on the shelves next' week. So
other will have a pen like a
whiplash, and spend all his
timeflogging dead horses.
a ,,
Admitting, then, that ideal
weekly •editors are no -existent,
what would the ideal weekly
paper be like? First of all, it
would have an editorial page
that always took a strong stand,
Never mind what stand, as long
as it was strong. One week, for
example, it could come solidly
in favour of higher salaries for
teachers, and lower necklines for
women, The next issue could
carry a resounding attack on the
rising cost of education, and a
demand for a firmer attitude
toward indecent exposure.
:< ;• .
For the ghouls and gossips, of
course, the ideal weekly would
carry several columns of court
cases, hints of wife -beatings, sug-
gestions of teenage orgies and
allusions to all manner of like
delicacies. No names, of course,
But everyone would know who
was mean, when the paper ran
an item like: "The garbage col-
lectors are complaining because
the garbage cans at the home of
a certain pillar of the church who
lives on Maple St., ae so loaded
with empty whiskey bottles they
can hardly lift them." •
* * „, *
For avid readers of the "per-
sonals," of . course, the ideal,
weekly would 'have a,. new ap- -
preach.. . No more of this dull
"Mr, and i\irs. Peter' Salt of
Westvale `called on relatives In .
town this week.' That's 'hot
news. The ideal. personal .item
would pack a lot more punch
and convey a lot more informa-
tion, It would read something
like this: -
e * * *
"Mr. and Mrs. Peter Salt (nee
Jennie "Red" Pepper, daughter
of Mrs. Malachi Pepper and the
late Malachi who used 'to live
in the old Squash place till it
caught . fire in that lightning
storm four years ago and Mala-
chi was burnt up trying to get
central on the Bebe- of Westvale,
where they have • been living'
since Peter (a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Rockfield Salt, former re-
sidents here before they moved
to the County Home) took a po-
sition there in the undertaking
parlours after some - years.. em-
ployed: here in George McLean's
body repair shop, visited.,, this
41atfiings BY I.M.S.
Chamber 4f Cornim...•.rce
Establi.si. ed Hospital
The businessmen of Exeter
have on several occasions ot`•
ganized a Chamber of , Com-
merce. The 'organization flour-
ished for a year or two and then
peered out. 1 have :lust been
reading the report of a meeting
that was held in; the Central
Hotel in November, 1929, to open
the fall season. The dining -room
of the hotel was filled to capa-
city eith music being provided
by phonograph and radio.
T;. 1C. F. Beaters was the pre-
sident and Ill• R. Complin, • sec-
rete*. Visitors present from
the London Chamber of (
on-
nercwere Major G. I. Ingram,
n
,
president of the Ontario Cham-
ber of Commerce; E. W. G.
Mo, re. president of the London
C of C; W. R. Manning, of the
Shertoclt•Ma ening Piano Co„ a
former resident of Exeter, and
Mr. It. L. Statton. manager of
the Bell Telephone Co,,
Mr. Complin spoke of the
work being carried on to re-
open the ''hospital in Exeter,
p acing a trained nurse in
charge and installing suitah:e
equipment in order to meet the
needs of the community. A visit
for information had been made
to the ho'.phot at Seaforth and
a resolution was passed to call
a public meeting on consider the
matter. .
The hospital referred to was
a brick residence that etno€t on
the property south of Snell Bros.
garage and was the former bonne
of the late James Pickard, who
did a thriving mercantile busi-
ness it Exeter and hoarded a
number of his employees, Mrs.
Pickard looking after the large
home.
The home was purchased by
C. B. Snell, than reeve of Exe-
ter, Mr. Snell purchased several
large homes in Exeter, had
them demolished and used much
of the material in greeting new,
homes in Exeter.
After purchasing the former
Pickard property, Mr. Snell de,
cided to turn it into a hospital.
He had a steam heating system
installed in the building. The
first lady to have charge of the
hospital was. Mrs. McNicol, a
practical nurse and Dr. Grahain
was the practicing physician.
There were three rooms fitted,
up, ern the ground floor and three
or four on the second floor.
Some of the rooms ,were fur-
nished by women's organizations.
in the town,
For the first few years the
hospital ftad a fair patronage'
but as everything did not go
well with the hospital it finally
closed and was afterwards used .
as a boarding house until fin-
ally torn clown to provide park-
ing space for the Snell Bros.
garage,
Jle,urning to the Chamber of
Commerce at the hotel. Mx, In,.
grant suggested that the 14,
counties which comprised West-
ern Ontario should become West-
ern Ontario minded ' "stating
that anything that helps to pro-
mote the growth or success of
any one community in Western
Ontarie was a benefit to the
whole.
Mr. E. •Moore suggested; that
Exeter pioneer in the aviation
field as' he believed that this
would be the coming mode of
travel,
Mr. Manning stated that he
had tramped the streets of Exe-
ter to school when Reeve Snell
was a star lacrosse player. He
remembered of his father telling
of having walked to Haititiltoil
for a cross -cut Saw and carry,
ing it home,
Rev, James Anthony, of
Thames Road, spoke briefly as
did Rev, C.° J, Moorehouge and
Rev. D. 'McTavish.
As The
„TIMES„
Go By
50 YEARS AGO .
Mr. William Abbott is going
extensively into bee culture.
J. M. Robertson has been re-
engaged to teach S.hipka school
for ]•909.
.Mr.William Coates has had
water basins placed in his barn.
The work • was clone by• Mr.• S.-
Purdon, Exeter.
The new . Lutheran church • at •
Dashwood will be opened• and
dedicated on Sunday, Decem-
her 13.
The Ladies Guild will hold
their bazaar in the Town Hall
Friday, December 4. -
Although the weather has been
summerlike it is none the less
a fact that Christmas will soon.
be here.
The meeting of the Women's
Institute Will be held in Senior's
Hall. Mrs, Cobbledick is presi-
dent.
25 YEARS AGO •
Nr, E. R. Guenther of Dash-
wood is erecting a . garage .west
of the ,"service atation at the
north end of Exeter.
Messrs. Irwin Ford, Silas
Reed, Chas. Salter, Calvert and
Bill Chambers went north, hunt-
ing last week and brought home
a big black beax and four deer.
Mr. Will Lampert was named
week with Jennies mother, and
called on her sister Annie mar-
ried to that new German 'fellow
come to the library any time on the tenth concession." See
during open. hours and browse what I mean? You'Vec got to get 'the present h' f 1' 't' g
some life into these personals. wedding write-ups ips a mere, 10 YEARS AGA
Now is the time to select * * ,a a bare, curt outline about three-
wouldn:t neglect important social
news, like weddings. Instead of
around b sen_ fas ion o inmtin
idi t r to
president of Thames Road
Y.P.S.
The C.G.LT.. and the Boy
Scouts in Exeter will be glad
to mend any dolls or broken
toys for distribution locally at
Christmas time,
Reeve B. M. Francis and W,
I). Sanders will contest the elec-
tion this year for reeveship.
Mr. John E. Dignan left on
Friday for Kingsville where he
will spend the winter•, with his
daughter, Mrs. Brown,
1,5 YEARS AGO
Stewart 'Brothers have rented
the north half of the. Huron
Garage to the Ontario Motor-
ways for the storage of their
buses for the winter.
Warden B. W. Tuckey. was
in Toronto on Monday attending
a wardens convention.
Frank. Strange R.C.N.N R.,
Ship's Writer of the H.M.C.S•
York, Toronto, has been home
on three weeks leave,.
On Saturday of •thisweek a
Tag Day will be held in. Exeter
for the Exeter, England fund.
Messrs. Gilbert Johnns,. Harold
I''enhale; E m e r s o n Penhale
Clifton Jaques and Cpl. Harry
Murch, Melville, were 'among
the successful hunters to bring
home the venison. •
Reg. Hodgert, Allan Coward,.
Bob Simpson, Mac Hodgert, and
Jack Borland of Thames Road
have taken positions with Du-
mart'.s - Packing Plant in Kite
diener,
books for Christmas gifts for In the ideal weekly, the sports quarters of a columns long that Huron County Council ens
the children on your list, The fan, too, would be looked after. gives 'only the most brief and dorsed the recommendation cif•
librarian, Mrs. Hilton Laing will No more of this dull chronicling perfunctory description of things, the health and hospital cbm,
be glad to help with your choice. of who got how many hits or the ideal Wedding write-up would nnitted and adopted a proposal
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scoring how manypals. There'd have some meat- on its bones. It
New books for young readers t? o g
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County.
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' t inHuron health uni l3
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on display at the library this be more of the real, roaring ex- would give a full .des p week will include "Noah's Ark" cilement of the game, like: "In the , bride's costume, instead of Mr, and Mrs. Wjlliam Sinclair,
with many colored pictures for the third period, responding to the skimpy couple of paragraphs. Kippen, marked their golden
five years and up; "Wee Robin's the pleas of the fans, Joe Mc- It would carry a complete list weddings anniversary on Tues.
Christmas Story", "Tell Me Abbtit Drool rose to new heights as he of 'the wedding gifts and the day, November 23.
Christmas" and a new edition picked up the puck behind his wedding guests. And it would Residents of Hay Township
of "A Christmas Carol" by own net, circled with the speed carry in 'Full the many charm- held e bee and ploughed 40
Charles Dickens for the very of an express train, started up ing and witty toasts proposed at acres of land for Mr. Frank.
young, also Vertle the Turtle the ice like a jet plane, and had the reception. Wildfong who has been in for
and other stories by Dr. Seuss he not had the sheer bad luck*several weeks.
telling how King Turtle built his to run'into one of his own de- I have ore, many mote,eideas H. H. G. Strang, R.R. 1 Hen,
throne by stacking up 5.607 tur- fencemen at the blue line, would about what the ideal weekly sail won first prize in region 't
a`t. 1 Mack was undoubtedly have gone through should carry. But I ant so sen- in Ontario sections $15,000. na'
lies to sit on. Little ,
the one on the bottom. a tin horn, and scored."There'd sitive about my own short- tional barley contest at Royal
be columns and columns of this comings as an' editor that it is Winter Fair.
People Of The Snow behind -the -scenes colour for the too painful to go on. And I know The apartment house on Walt
This book tells about the Eeki• sports enthusiasts. my fellow publishers are hang- limit Street owned by Mr, S.
loos of Arctic Canada illustrated
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